NFR: Odd insect from Northern California

This guy flew into my propane lantern after dark a couple of weeks ago then landed on the picnic table. I thought he was pretty awesome looking so I snapped a few pictures. At the time I didn't know what it was, only knowing it was a beetle of some sort. My girlfriend nicknamed it a watermelon bug because of the resemblance. Only later I discovered it was a ten lined beetle otherwise known as a watermelon beetle. How about that! Thought some of you might find it interesting.

Hello sir, I live in Red Bluff, CA, thirty minutes south of Redding. I see this bug every year. They're June bugs, and my Grandma hates them, but I think they're cool. I've always wanted to make a fly pattern for them.

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Helping to fill a gap here on WFF with Entomology will be Roger Rohrbeck (Taxon). Roger has an impressive piece of work with FlyfishingEntomology.com and has consistently been the source of answers on the subject here on WFF. Rather than overlap efforts on the subject we'll have this forum area dedicated to subject with Roger moderating. Note the links below to his site. Thanks.